snapcraft tour broken when installed from snap
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Current evaluation
Tour failed when snapcraft ran from a snap because it looked in /usr/share/snapcraft/tour. Fixed by merged PR snapcore/snapcraft#1217 (commit d365eb9ed, 'tour: make it work when its a snap'), linked in the closing comment.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: The bug was an incorrect hardcoded tour path when snapcraft is snap-installed. snapcore/snapcraft#1217 (commit d365eb9ed, 'tour: make it work when its a snap') corrected the tour directory detection for snap installs, and maintainer sergiusens posted that PR link when closing the bug.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
To reproduce:-
sudo apt remove snapcraft
snap install snapcraft --edge --classic
snapcraft tour
Expected behaviour:-
$ snapcraft tour
Snapcraft tour initialized in ./snapcraft-tour/
Instructions are in the README, or http://snapcraft.io/create/#tour
Actual behaviour:-
$ snapcraft tour
[Error 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/snapcraft/tour'
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Tour failed when snapcraft ran from a snap because it looked in /usr/share/snapcraft/tour. Fixed by merged PR snapcore/snapcraft#1217 (commit d365eb9ed, 'tour: make it work when its a snap'), linked in the closing comment. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Snapcraft's snap-installed tour failure was fixed by merged PR canonical/snapcraft#1217 (d365eb9ed), correcting tour bootstrapping and repository detection. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR canonical/snapcraft#1217 (d365eb9ed) fixed the tour path and bootstrap logic so `snapcraft tour` works when Snapcraft is installed as a snap. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | The snapcraft tour command failed due to a missing directory path when installed via snap. The issue was closed without comments or documented resolution, indicating it was abandoned or fixed in a later release. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without comment or resolution details. The report described a missing directory error when running snapcraft tour from a snap installation. Likely abandoned or resolved upstream without tracking. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned. Closed without comments or a fix. The missing directory error for snap-installed snapcraft tour remains unresolved. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Abandoned. The snapcraft tour command fails with a missing directory error when installed via snap, but no fix or follow-up was provided. |
Update history
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Related work
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Likely Fixed By:
canonical/snapcraft#1217
(confidence 95%)
Merged commit d365eb9ed 'tour: make it work when its a snap.' cited by the closing maintainer comment.
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Related To:
canonical/snapcraft#1520
(confidence 60%)
Commit 9696c57e9 later removed the tour assets/feature entirely, superseding the fix years after.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1217 tour: make it work when its a snap. | snapcraft | merged | Merged PR #1217 in commit d365eb9ed, fixing tour bootstrapping and repository detection when Snapcraft runs as a snap; resolves LP #1674952. | |
| #1590906 Enable the `snapcraft tour` command | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | `snapcraft tour` was re-enabled by PR #559 (commit cadeb87ea, "Reenable tour command"), merged by Didier Roche and released in snapcraft 2.11 to xenial -updates; SRU verification passed and LP bug janitored. | |
| #1618126 tour: snapcraft upload does not return a url | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Docs nit about the snapcraft tour's publication step was closed by ~sergiusens on 2019-02-07, noting the tour had not been part of snapcraft for some time; the remaining tour assets were later deleted in commit 9696c57e9 (PR #1520). | |
| #1586137 Snapcraft should provide an `tour` subcommand that sets up a basic tour | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Implemented in Snapcraft 2.10: PR #513 (7f334a5b1) added the getting-started tour, and PR #559 (cadeb87ea) re-enabled the completed command; verification passed. | |
| #1590903 Improve snapcraft tour material | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Tour content expansion shipped: upstream PR ubuntu-core/snapcraft#558 (commit 442b4f12) "Add finale tour examples and tests" fixed this; released in snapcraft 2.11 to xenial -proposed/-updates, verified by ~elopio and marked verification-done. | |
| #1589782 tourdir unittests fail when the package is build in launchpad | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Launchpad builds failed the tourdir unit tests because they hardcoded /usr/share/snapcraft/tour. Fixed by merged PR canonical/snapcraft#551 (commit 4ae5e7a09), released in snapcraft 2.11 and verified into xenial-updates. |